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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461821703321

Titolo

Transnational crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : remapping the Americas and the Pacific / / edited by Camilla Fojas & Rudy p.Guevarra, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-68783-5

9786613664778

0-8032-4088-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (492 p.)

Collana

Borderlands and transcultural studies

Altri autori (Persone)

FojasCamilla <1971->

GuevarraRudy

Disciplina

308.800973

Soggetti

Ethnic relations - History

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations History

Asia Relations United States History

United States Relations Asia History

Latin America Relations United States History

United States Relations Latin America History

Islands of the Pacific Relations United States History

United States Relations Islands of the Pacific

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. The End of Empire; 1. Postcolonial Im/migration and Transnational Activist Practices; 2. Imperial Works; 3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of Counterhegemony; Part 2. Comparative Racialization; 4. Dismantling Privileged Settings; 5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps; 6. Mabuhay Compañero; Part 3. The American Pacific; 7. Spectacles of Citizenship; 8. From Captain Cook to Captain Kirk, or, From Colonial Exploration to Indigenous Exploitation

9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha Highway 10.



Multitasking Mediators; Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration; 11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru; 12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home; 13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere; 14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers; 15. Ganbateando; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.Through a comparative